We can't see the track run on the left side of '91' but I agree that the most likely explanation for the links on the ground in front of the tank is that they were dislodged from the driver-radio operator's plate.

It wasn't unusual for SS102 Tigers to have spare track links on the driver - radio op plate.
Take a look atTigers 132, 133, 211, 231... (see gallery).
Indeed 3 spare track links were attached by means of hooks on either side of the plate.
So it was likely the case with Tiger 91 too.

Yann : it's exactly what I was meaning so I completely agree with you.
On the other and, Hartmut, it was a lot less common to have such a bar and tracks on the front plate of late Tigers, whereas it was common on mid ones... That's why I was puzzled.
What you refer to the bar, could be part of the piece we can see behind the spare tracks and which may have been a front mud guard broken off by the demolition charge or whatever damaged the tank...
Cédric

Original von Cédric Martinet
On the other and, Hartmut, it was a lot less common to have such a bar and tracks on the front plate of late Tigers, whereas it was common on mid ones... That's why I was puzzled.

Cédric,

spare track links were attached to the Tiger hulls at Unit level regardless of Tiger versions.
Most SS101 late Tigers carried track links on the front hull plate by means of a metal bar.
This was rarely seen on SS102, at least as far as the existing photo coverage goes. So far only 133 and the "Saumur Tiger" (probably 114) carried track links in such a fashion.

On the pictures of Tiger 92 (or 93), it seems the rune on the front plate was covered with painting.
As just behind this tank we can see a Tiger from SS 101, I was wondering if Tiger 92 (or 93) could have been given to that unit.